Marked for Ingvar Jónsson
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
128 days out for Ingvar Jónsson after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vikingur will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Vikingur
Oliver Ekroth and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Stígur Diljan Þórðarson is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gunnar Vatnhamar is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Nobody at Vikingur will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
136 days out for Ingvar Jónsson after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vikingur will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vikingur have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Vikingur
Gunnar Vatnhamar and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
145 days out for Ingvar Jónsson after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vikingur will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match10 Dec 2026
1‑4. There is a level at which football is played every single week by clubs that have been doing it for fifty years, and an evening like this is what it feels like to arrive there without having done it.
Match14 Dec 2026
19 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Vikingur
Tarik Ibrahimagic and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gunnar Vatnhamar, and the manager let it.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The team sheet said everything about Davíð Örn Atlason
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Davíð Örn Atlason.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Oliver Ekroth gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Oliver Ekroth is on it.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elías Már Ómarsson, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aron Snær Friðriksson and Vikingur agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Ingvar Jónsson's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
Nikolaj Hansen breaks a bone — 110 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match5 Nov 2026
0‑6. There is a level at which football is played every single week by clubs that have been doing it for fifty years, and an evening like this is what it feels like to arrive there without having done it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Oliver Ekroth was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match5 Nov 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Vikingur and Bologna, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sveinn Gísli Þorkelsson, and the manager let it.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Vikingur dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market9 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Björgvin Brimi Andrésson and Vikingur agree another 4 years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A goalkeeper’s error has no defender behind it to tidy it away. He knew before the ball crossed the line, the crowd knew a second later, and there is nothing anybody can say tonight.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Nikolaj Hansen out for 128 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vikingur will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match22 Oct 2026
0‑3. There is a level at which football is played every single week by clubs that have been doing it for fifty years, and an evening like this is what it feels like to arrive there without having done it.
Match22 Oct 2026
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gunnar Vatnhamar is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad26 Oct 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Ingvar Jónsson knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Emil Palsson after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Upbeat
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
This is the season the town will measure the next twenty against. The trophy travels home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Match1 Oct 2026
Vikingur do the business in Europe
1‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Vikingur came through the finding-out well against Antwerp.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match1 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Vikingur did not have in the autumn.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tarik Ibrahimagic was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gunnar Vatnhamar is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nikolaj Hansen, 33, rolls back the years — 8.19
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.19 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match26 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Vikingur
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Vikingur
Gylfi Sigurðsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Björgvin Brimi Andrésson is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match26 Sep 2026
Three points for Vikingur, 3‑1 the final word against KR in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Emil Palsson on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ingvar Jónsson is on it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Sigurjón Mogensen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sveinn Margeir Hauksson, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Match17 Sep 2026
Vikingur do the business in Europe
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Vikingur came through the finding-out well against Brondby.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen provided it, and the 8.75 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match21 Sep 2026
The view from the top for Vikingur
16 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match20 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Vikingur did not have in the autumn.
Match20 Sep 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The team sheet said everything about Gunnar Vatnhamar
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Gunnar Vatnhamar.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daníel Hafsteinsson, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Match12 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 88th, and Fylkir spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.68 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match12 Sep 2026
Vikingur make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Vikingur have 4 straight wins of it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Vikingur, 2‑1 the final word against Fylkir in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gunnar Vatnhamar falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Fjolnir to sit and watch. I want to come back to Vikingur and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Vikingur, and it is a cruel one.